Creating a Landing Page - quick setup of domain, hosting and CDN (3)
Creating a Landing Page - quick setup of domain, hosting and CDN
Hey guys!
Some time ago we have already explained what are hosting, domain and CDN about. If you still feel lost, and haven't checked our post, you can find it here on STM: https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...-CDN-explained!
Meanwhile, we are continuing to explore how to quickly set up a landing page, avoiding long nights of Googling and studying programming languages.
[Disclaimer: This post was originally published on mobidea Academy. All the missing information can be found in the full version. ]
The best and easiest solution for beginners is to go with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Cloud Hosting) and Amazon Cloudfront (CDN). During the first year, those services will provide free packages – enough for a certain amount of traffic.
Amazon Web Services requires zero coding skills, is very simple to set up, and free for the low volumes of traffic.
Upon registration, you get free usage of:
- Amazon S3 for 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests and 15GB of data transfer out each month, for one year.
- Amazon CloudFront for 50 GB Data Transfer Out and 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS Requests each month, for one year.
We wanted to create a detailed step-by-step instruction, but realized that we can't do it better than it's already been done and presented on the official website of Amazon Web Services.
So here goes a simplified instruction
1. Create and configure the buckets (Amazon S3) for your website
A bucket is a container for objects stored on Amazon S3. To complete this step, just follow the Amazon AWS Guide I’ve alluded to before.
2. Upload pre-landing page files and deploy the website
The first thing you should bear in mind is this: you’ve gotta make sure your main HTML file is called index.html!
In this article, we assume you’ve already got a ready-to-use pre-landing page on your PC. However, in case you got it from a spy service or from your account manager, you may have to do a couple of things before you can actually use it. For instance, let’s say you got a pre-landing page from Adplexity
Here’s what to do next:
- Extract the file from an archive file and insert it into a folder
- Go to that folder, find the file with .html extension and change its name to index.html
- Open this index.html and find the final affiliate link to where it’s leading
- Come back to the folder with the pre-landing, right click on index.html, then “Open with” and pick “Notepad”
- Search for that affiliate link through the text and replace it with your own link everywhere
Now your pre-landing page files are ready. You just need to upload them all to the Amazon Bucket just like it’s described on the guide.
Note: you may wanna stop on step 2 since you’ve got that option. After you set up the bucket and uploaded the pre-landing page, the pre-landing page will become accessible and you can send traffic on it.
However, in this case, you need to make sure your S3 server is located close to your traffic’s GEO. In case it’s not, you risk losing many users due to your web-page’s slow loading speed!
3. Register a new domain (check the suggestions regarding domain providers)
A normal first level domain price won’t get higher than 10 Euros. From our experience, namecheap.com and internetbs.net are the domain providers you should work with, as those are cheap and have a proven record of reliability and flexibility.
4. Associate your domain with your Amazon Cloud Hosting using Amazon Route 53 service
To complete this step, just follow the Amazon AWS Guide.
[SIZE=3]5. Connect your Website to CloudFront CDN[/SIZE]
Is it really necessary to do this? And why? Check in the original version of this article on Mobidea Academy!
Once I create the landing page, how do I link the landing page to my campaign offer?
Traffic source I use is propeller ads, tracker is
Originally Posted by elnathanj
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